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Center for Pacific Islands Studies

Moving Images of the Pacific Islands" - regularly updated online guide to films, videos, and DVDs on the Pacific Islands (8/15/2007 - 8/14/2008)

Pacific Islands Report: Weekday daily online news reports about the Pacific Islands (8/15/2007 - 8/14/2008)

Pacific Studies Initiative Syllabus and Bibliography Collection (8/15/2007 - 8/14/2008)

Quarterly newsletter: "Pacific News from Manoa" (8/15/2007 - 8/14/2008)

Colloquium: "The Noumea Accord and the Evolution of Kanak Movements: From Political Sovereignty to Indigenous Rights?" by Marie Salaun, University Rene Descartes, Paris (8/23/2007)

Occasional seminar: "Maori: Indigenous or Pacific? by Alice Te Punga Somerville, Victoria University of Wellington (8/29/2007)

Occasional seminar: "China Engages Oceania: Threat or Opportunity," by John Henderson, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (9/5/2007)

Classroom presentation: "The Pacific Islands," by Vilsoni Hereniko, UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies (9/11/2007)

Reading: "Victoria Kneubuhl Reads from Her Work" (9/12/2007)

Television broadcast: "Manoa Journal Celebrates French Polynesian Artists and Writers: A Roundtable" (10/2/2007)

Colloquium: "Women's Domination in Tahiti: From Domestic Violence to Matriarchy," by Patrick Cerf, MD, PhD, Tahiti, French Polynesia (10/4/2007)

Reading and talk: "Shedding Some Light on the Pouliuli," by Sarona Aiono-Iosefa, New Zealand (10/9/2007)

Illustrated Lecture: "Fatu Feu'u" (10/16/2007)

Occasional Seminar: "Maori Goddesses and Maori Women," by Aroha Yates-Smith, University of Waikato, New Zealand (10/25/2007)

Distinguished Lecture: "Samoan Jurisprudence and the Samoan Lands and Titles Court," by His Highness Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Efi, Head of State of Samoa (10/29/2007)

Colloquium: "Perishing Survivors: War Memory, New Media, and the Virtual Nation," by Geoffrey M White, University of Hawai'i at Manoa (10/31/2007)

Colloquium: "The Work of Academia Sinica," by Ying-Kuei Huang, Shiun-wey Huang, Wen-te Chen, Bien Chiang, and Yuan-chao Tung (11/5/2007)

Television broadcast: "Victor Roger: A Talk and Reading" (11/6/2007)

Presentation: "Out of Samoa: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration and Pacific Studies," by Sailiemanu Lilomaiava-Doktor, University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu (11/8/2007)

Presentation: "'Freedom Dreams': Pacific Studies in the Age of Neoliberalism," by April K Henderson, Victorial Univesity of Wellington, New Zealand (11/15/2007)

Occasional Seminar: "The Portrait, the Pe'a, and the Room: Place and Memory in the Photographs of Mark Adams," by Peter Brunt, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (11/20/2007)

Talk: "E-Learning and the Revitalization of Maori," by Rapata Wiri, University of Waikato, New Zealand (11/20/2007)

Presentation: "Homes, Households, and Communities among Federated States of Micronesia Residents on Guam," by Lola Quan-Bautista, University of Guam (11/26/2007)

Lecture and Demonstration:"Atamira Dance Company" (2/4/2008)

Dance Performance: "Atamira Dance Company in Concert" (2/10/2008)

Occasional Seminar: "Unmasking Memory and History in Pacific Writing," by Steven Winduo, University of Papua New Guinea (3/20/2008 - 3/29/2008)

Public talk: "Determinants and Dynamics of Micronesian Emigration," by Ben Graham, independent development consultant in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (4/2/2008)

Colloquium: "Moments of Silence: Language Ideology in Fijian Christian Conversions," by Matt Tomlinson, Monash University, Australia (4/3/2008)

Conference: "Micronesian Voices in Hawai'i" (4/3/2008 - 4/4/2008)

Classroom Presentation: Pohnpeian author Emelihter Kihleng at University of Hawai'i at Hilo (4/14/2008)

Audio file: "US Budget Cuts Affect Marshall Islanders." Interview on Hawai'i Public Radio with Ben Graham, Marshall Islands development consultant (4/15/2008 - 8/14/2008)

Meeting with students: Pohnpeian student Emelihter Kihleng met with Pacific Islander students to talk about her writing, which incorporates Micronesian culture and contemporary issues. (4/15/2008)

Presentation to students, by Pohnpeian poet Emelihter Kihleng (4/16/2008)

Colloquium: "Half-lives and Half-truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War," by Barbara Johnson, Center for Political Ecology (4/17/2008)

Reading: Pohnpeian Poet Emelihter Kihleng (4/17/2008)

Colloquium: "Conditions and Mechanisms for Peace in Pre-Contact Oceania," by Stephen Younger, National Security Technologies, LLC Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (4/24/2008)

"Occasional Seminar: "Envisioning Pacific Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa," by Vilsoni Hereniko, UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies (4/25/2008)

Occasional Seminar: "Grounding Pacific Studies: Land, Development, and Conflicts in Oceania," by Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program (5/1/2008)

Streamed Audio File: "Micronesian Conference Recommendations" (5/5/2008 - 8/14/2008)

Streamed Audio file: "Non-Profit Assists Pacific Island Immigrants" (5/6/2008 - 8/14/2008)

Occasional Seminar: "Three Canoes: Writing, Research, and Teaching Pacific Studies," by Steven Winduo, University of Papua New Guinea (5/8/2008)

Occasional Seminar: "Beaches, Reefs, and Currents: Contemporary Keywords for (Re)Searching Oceania." (5/13/2008)

Streamed Audio file: "Micronesian Voices in Hawai'i" (5/22/2008 - 8/14/2008)

Film festival: "Re-Presenting the Pacific" (7/11/2008 - 7/13/2008)

Moving Images of the Pacific Islands - regularly updated online guide to films, videos, and DVDs on the Pacific Islands. (8/15/2008 - 8/14/2009)

Pacific Islands Report Weekday daily online news reports about the Pacific Islands. (8/15/2008 - 8/14/2009)

Pacific Islands Studies Initiative Syllabus and Bibliography Collection (8/15/2008 - 8/14/2009)

Quarterly newsletter, Pacific News from Manoa (8/15/2008 - 8/14/2009)

Colloquium Independence, Nationhood, and Sovereignty in New Caledonia under the Noumea Accord Old Concepts, New Meanings? (8/21/2008)

Presentation Pacific Indigenous Dialogue on Faith, Peace, Reconciliation, and Good Governance (8/26/2008)

Colloquium Sporting with Leviathans Making Feasible Actors at the Porgera Gold Mine (9/4/2008)

Colloquium Kava Toxicity in Context A Contribution to Biocultural Considerations of Ingested Substances (9/18/2008)

Colloquium Pacific Literature (9/22/2008)

Colloquium Tirohia Kimihia The First Monolingual Dictionary of Maori (9/23/2008)

Symposium Folktales and Fairy Tales Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema (9/23/2008 - 9/26/2008)

Community Television Broadcasts Micronesian Voices in Hawaii (9/30/2008 - 11/4/2008)

Colloquium Households, Marae, and Occupational Specialization New Views on Social Complexity in the Late Prehistoric Society Islands Chiefdoms (10/2/2008)

Colloquium No Ordinary Poetics Polynesian Poetry in English (10/2/2008)

Colloquium Woven by Water Writing Biculturally in Aotearoa/New Zealand (10/22/2008)

Colloquium Indigenous Media in a Digital Age What Does the Future Hold (10/23/2008)

Colloquium Indigenous Publishing in Aotearoa/New Zealand (10/23/2008)

Colloquium Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Its Effects on Pacific Peoples (10/30/2008)

Colloquium Digital Fieldwork, a View from Linguistics (10/30/2008)

Colloquium The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Implementation of International Law into Daily Living of Indigenous Peoples around the World (10/30/2008)

Olelo Community Television broadcast Oscar Kightley, On His Work (11/4/2008)

Colloquium Compresssed Globalization and Expanding Desires in Marovo Lagoon Reflections on Long-Term Fieldwork (11/5/2008)

Colloquium Political Instability and Institutional Engineering in Melanesia (11/5/2008)

Film Showing Vincent and the Rainforest Global Conversations in Rural Melanesia (11/5/2008)

Film Showing Time and Tide (11/7/2008)

Film showing Made in Taiwan (11/21/2008)

Film showing O le ie Toga The Samoan Fine Mat (12/5/2008)

Colloquium Ambiguities of Race Science on the Reproductive Frontier of Australia and the Pacific between the Wars (2/5/2009)

Colloquium Treaty of Waitangi Partnership Initiatives Successes and Challenges (2/6/2009)

Colloquium Local Politics and Colonial Frontiers The Paradox of the Union Caledonienne in the Commune of Kone New Caledonia (2/18/2009)

Colloquium Electronic Pathways for Samoan Heritage Students (2/26/2009)

Colloquium Historic Preservation in Micronesia (3/5/2009)

Colloquium Writing the Pacific Opening Up the Pacific Vein (3/5/2009)

Conference UHM School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference - Transoceania Rethinking Asia from the Pacific and the Pacific from Asia (3/11/2009 - 3/13/2009)

Colloquium Did Ancient Polynesians Reach the New World? South American Sweet Potatoes in the Pacific Islands (3/12/2009)

Conference Pacific Alternatives Cultural Heritage and Political Innovation in Oceania (3/24/2009 - 3/27/2009)

Colloquium An Update on the Politics of Fiji (4/8/2009)

Colloquium Tau Rima Roundtable - Tahitian Performance Materials (4/16/2009)

Colloquium French Polynesian Literature Today (4/23/2009)

Marshallese Education Day (4/25/2009)

Colloquium Human Rights Promotion and Protection in the Pacific (4/29/2009)

Multimedia Presentation Writing for the Tribe An Evening with Witi Ihimaera (4/29/2009)

Colloquium Latest Developments in Fiji A US Perspective (4/30/2009)

Poetry reading and performance, The Journey of Our Words, featuring two Chamorro poets (5/1/2009)

Colloquium Talk Story with the staff of Tawata Productions (5/5/2009)

K-12 Social Studies Teachers Workshop (5/5/2009)

Colloquium Sea-Level Change in the Pacific Islands (5/8/2009)

Presentation and reading The Adventures of Vela Writing a Novel in Verse, with Albert Wendt (5/14/2009)

Maui Community Television broadcast Micronesian Voices in Hawaii (7/30/2009 - 8/5/2009)

Cultural Forum through Film Films from the Pacific (8/7/2009 - 8/9/2009)

Moving Images of the Pacific Islands - regularly updated online guide to films, videos, and DVDs on the Pacific Islands (8/15/2009 - 8/14/2010)

Pacific Islands Report Weekday daily online news reports about the Pacific Islands. (8/15/2009 - 8/14/2010)

Pacific News from Manoa, quarterly newsletter (8/15/2009 - 8/14/2010)

Pacific Studies Initiative Syllabus and Bibliography Collection (8/15/2009 - 8/14/2010)

Public Lecture by Michel Tuffery (9/9/2009)

Public lecture by Michel Tuffery (9/15/2009)

The art of Michel Tuffery (9/16/2009)

Being an Artist (9/21/2009)

Film showing and QandA No. 2, with Toa Fraser (9/25/2009)

Pacific Cultural Anthropology at Manoa (10/1/2009)

Interview with Michel Tuffery (10/13/2009 - 11/21/2009)

The Film Work of Toa Fraser (10/13/2009)

Indigenous Pacific filmmaking (10/15/2009)

Broadcast of presentation by visiting artist Michel Tuffery (10/19/2009 - 11/5/2009)

New Zealand Cinema The Best-Kept Secret? (10/21/2009)

Understanding the Micronesian Experience in Hawaii (10/23/2009)

The Quest for a Post-Racial Fiji and the Audacity of Hope (10/28/2009)

Poetry reading The Journey of Our Words (11/20/2009)

Conference session Issues in the Contemporary Pacific (1/14/2010)

Symposium -- Translating the Human Rights, Ethics, and Practices across Cultures (1/14/2010 - 1/15/2010)

Living in the Qoliqoli Urban Squatting on the Fiji Foreshore (1/20/2010)

Remembering Colonial Experiences Palauan Elders Stories (1/27/2010)

Poetry Reading -- I Kareran I Palabran Mami The Journey of Our Words (2/12/2010)

Film Showing The Insular Empire (2/21/2010)

Merging Archaeology with the Local Community The Molokai Archaeological Training Program and Wailau Research Project, Molokai Island, Hawaii (3/11/2010)

The Origins of Maori in Parliament The 1867 Maori Representation Act in New Zealand (3/15/2010)

Kabu Ni Vanua Dance and Music from Fiji (3/30/2010 - 4/9/2010)

Residency Tongan Artist Filipe Tohi (4/6/2010 - 4/14/2010)

Beautiful Islands Film showing and panel discussion (4/18/2010)

Moving Images of the Pacific Islands - regularly updated online guide to films, videos, and DVDs on the Pacific Islands (8/15/2010 - 8/14/2011)

Pacific Islands Report Weekday daily online news reports about the Pacific Islands. (8/15/2010 - 8/14/2011)

Pacific Studies Initiative Syllabus and Bibliography Collection (8/15/2010 - 8/14/2011)

Transnations in Oceania Colonial States and Indigenous Identities (9/3/2010)

Without Boundaries Contemporary Oceania Artist--A Movement Happening Now (9/4/2010)

Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Opportunity to Participate in 2011 Meeting in Waikiki (9/7/2010)

Merata Mita and the Idea of a Pacific Cinema (9/8/2010)

Living in Hawaiian Land Cultural Diversity in the Waianae District (9/9/2010)

Palauans Dancing to an Okinawan Folk Song Memories of Japanese Imperialism and the Pacific War in Palau (9/9/2010)

University of Hawaii at Manoa High School Counselors Workshop (9/10/2010)

Back to the Future in the Caves of Kauai (9/23/2010)

Using Social Network Analysis in Archaeology and Human Population Genetics (10/15/2010)

Makerita Urale Playscript Presentation (10/28/2010)

Student Research from Papua New Guinea and Aotearoa (10/29/2010)

Celebrating Connections An Exhibition of Contemporary Pacific Artists (11/2/2010 - 11/27/2010)

Celebrating Connections An Exhibition of Contemporary Pacific Artists (11/3/2010)

Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages (11/3/2010)

Ritual Architecture, Occupational Specialization, and Ideology in the Late Prehistoric Society Islands (11/4/2010)

Without Boundaries Contemporary Oceania Artists--A Movement Happening Now (11/4/2010)

PhD in Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington (11/8/2010)

2010 Bougainville and Solomon Islands Elections Observeers Observations (11/18/2010)

Marshallese Language and Culture in Our Community and Schools (11/20/2010)

Tosiwo Nakayama and Macronesia (12/4/2010)

Workshop presentation Intervention for What? State, Economy and New Beginnings in Autonomous Bougainville (12/8/2010)

Workshop presentation Re-Presenting Conflicts and the RAMSI Intervention in Solomon Islands (12/8/2010)

Panel Discussion Intervening in Conflict Situations (12/9/2010)

Micronesians in Hawaii Health Care, Advocacy, and Agency (1/24/2011)

Regional Integration in the Pacific Islands Moving from Fiction to Fact (1/28/2011)

Interview on Marshallese in Hawaii (2/2/2011)

2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation Strategies for Moving Forward (2/9/2011 - 2/13/2011)

Chewing Buai and Poetry in Papua New Guinea (2/9/2011)

Getting Locals Involved Integrating Indigenous Knowledge, Customary Sea Tenure, and Geographic Tools (2/10/2011)

Kia Whita! Burn Fervently! Accelerating Maori language learning (2/11/2011)

Photographing Pacific Islanders (2/11/2011)

Te Reo i Te Papa Takaro Language in the playground at several Maori immersion schools (2/11/2011)

The Legal Maori Dictionary (2/12/2011)

Adoption in Micronesia Understanding Adoption, Person, and Emotion (2/16/2011)

Deep Water A Pacific Film Series (2/16/2011)

Film series Unwriting Oceania (3/2/2011 - 4/13/2011)

Metonymic Function of Language and Cultural Truth in Pacific Writing (3/10/2011)

Micronesian migration to Hawaii (6/14/2011)

Seventh-grade Pacific Islands Studies Curriculum Development (6/24/2011 - 8/14/2011)

Cultural competency with Marshallese communities (6/28/2011)

Cultural competency with Marshallese communities (6/28/2011)

Moving Images of the Pacific Islands - Regularly updated online guide to films, videos, and DVDs on the Pacific Islands (8/15/2011 - 8/14/2012)

Pacific Islands Report Weekday daily online news reports about the Pacific Islands (8/15/2011 - 8/14/2012)

Pacific Studies Initiative Syllabus and Bibliography Collection (8/15/2011 - 8/14/2012)

University of Hawaii Workshop for High School Counselors (9/9/2011)

Household Economy, Gendered Labor, and Spanish Colonialism in the Mariana Islands (9/15/2011)

Poetry Reading (9/23/2011)

Artistic Escapades Artist Residencies in Oceania (9/28/2011)

Presentation by the recipients of the Na Nei Tou I Loloma Scholarships for 2011 - Peter Akuna and Shoshana Hannemann described their research trips to the Samoas (10/3/2011)

Chinese Exceptionalism at the 42nd Pacific Islands Forum A Preliminary Report (10/12/2011)

Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer in Residence Marisa Maepu (10/20/2011)

Pacific Islander Students - Dr Julie Walsh (10/20/2011)

Sailing, Navigation, and Canoe Culture in the Marshall Islands (10/26/2011)

Pacific Trivia Night (10/27/2011)

The Pros and Cons of Long-term Fieldwork (10/27/2011)

Exhibition Walk-Through (11/7/2011)

DeMilitarizing the Pacific (11/9/2011)

US relations with Micronesian nations and Micronesian migrant communities in Hawai?i (11/17/2011)

Amuia le Masina Moon Madness, Ghosts, and Metaphors (11/22/2011)

Wa Kuk Wa JimorMarshallese Canoes Today (12/7/2011)

Community meeting to mark the visit to Hawaii of the Tokelau Head of State, Ulu o Tokelau Aliki Faipute Foua Toloa, and the faipule elected representatives of Tokelau (12/14/2011)

Native Voices reading and lecture series featuring Hawaiian and Pacific writers Imaikalani Kalahele, Terisa Tinei Siagatonu, Donovan Kuhio Colleps, Paul Robins, and Uluwehi Cashman (12/15/2011)

Shillyshallying and daydreams of oral writing by Tahitian poetess Flora Devatine (1/30/2012)

Kamehameha Schools Student Visit - Middle school students introduction to Pacific Islands studies (1/31/2012)

Native Voices a reading and lecture series featuring Flora Devatine, Caroline Sinavaiana, Michael Puleloa, Lauren Malailani Cabaniss, Leailani Johnson-Hagmoc, and Joleen Togawa Salas (2/3/2012)

Service Learning and Community Engagement in the Pacific - Dr Robert Franco (2/8/2012)

Return to Fort Kamehameha Martialing Memory in Occupied Hawaii - Ty Kawika Tengan (2/15/2012)

Perspectives on Micronesian Communities in Hawaii and Micronesias Pacific Connections particularly Hawaii (2/16/2012)

Pacific Connections Seminar Series Reconnecting Hawai?i and TahitiSouth Pacific Perspectives on Hawaii and Pacific Travel in the Precolonial Period (2/21/2012)

Re-Writing Rapa Nui Prehistory and the not so? Surprising Reactions - Professor Terry Hunt (2/23/2012)

The Pacific Film Series - Siones Wedding Samoan Wedding (2/23/2012)

Native Voices reading and lecture series presents Empowering Pacific Youth (3/2/2012)

Pacific Places Curriculum workshop (3/3/2012)

Shakeup in Canberra Interpreting the Gillard-Rudd Rivalry and the Implications of Recent Political Developments in Australia (3/5/2012)

Shifting Currents in US-Pacific Islands Fisheries Relations - Transform Aqorau, Chief Executive Officer, Parties to the Nauru Agreement (3/6/2012)

The Pacific Film Series presents Morning Comes So Soon (3/8/2012)

The Epidemiological Transition and the Double Burden of Disease International and Pacific Island Perspectives - Dr Richard Taylor (3/9/2012)

Attenuated Sovereignties and Possible Futures The Case of American Samoa - Dr Faanofo Uperesa (3/14/2012)

Profits, Protection and Protests The Power Dynamics of Natural Resource Governance in New Caledonia - Dr Leah Horowitz (3/15/2012)

Basic Health Hawaii Broken Spirits, Healing Souls - Keola Kim Diaz, CPIS MA public presentation (3/20/2012)

Pacific Connections Seminar Series presents Flags, Human Heads, and Movies Challenges of Seeking a Common Destiny in Kanaky New Caledonia - Dr David Chappell (3/21/2012)

The Pacific Film Series presents Boy (3/22/2012)

Deep Waters Film Festival (4/3/2012)

What the Micronesian Migrant Surveys tell us about conditions of Micronesians in Hawaii - Michael Levin, Senior Census Trainer (4/4/2012)

The Pacific Film Series presents Shiros Head (4/5/2012)

Constructions of Identity - Chantal Spitz (4/11/2012)

Pacific Connections Seminar Series presents Polynesian Linguistics Sylvia Richaud, University of French Polynesia (4/11/2012)

Visual Sovereignty and Indigenous Countervisuality Picturing Contemporary Kanaka Maoli Art Practice in Hawaii (4/24/2012)

Democracy in French Polynesia - Smir Al Wardi (4/25/2012)

The Pacific Film Series presents Miss South Pacific Beauty and the Sea (5/3/2012)